ABSTRACT
The Kyoto Protocol (the Protocol) is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) (the Convention). The Kyoto Protocol’s preamble states that “Parties to this Protocol … in pursuit of the ultimate objective of the Convention ... have agreed ….” Thus, the objective of the Protocol is to contribute to the objectives of the Convention, which include “… to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.”1
